Milestone at Connor Downs is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 April 2012. Milestone.
Milestone at Connor Downs
- WRENN ID
- tall-vestry-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Constituency
- Camborne and Redruth MP: Perran Moon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 April 2012
- Type
- Milestone
- OS grid reference
- SW 592 391
- Coordinates
- 50.20373, -5.37504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a milestone from around 1839, featuring a triangular shape set on a rectangular base with broach stops at the corners. It stands approximately 0.83 meters high and is painted white. The left side of the milestone is inscribed with the distances to Hayle (2 miles), Penzance (10 miles), and Land's End (20 miles), while the right side shows the distances to Camborne (4 miles), Redruth (7 miles), and Truro (16 miles). The inscriptions are highlighted in black paint, and the base of the stone is painted black.
Local climate
Milestone at Connor Downs receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 91% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 4 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2003
- No related consent applications matched
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